Brimming with humor, dreams, and tenderness, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ravishing film unfurls as if in a trance. With his signature slow-cinema style, the celebrated filmmaker infuses Thai spiritualism into the quotidian, rendering visits to a small-town hospital a magnificent, eerie experience.

Carlos Reygadas’s cinema is one of meticulous observation and grandiose revelations. Casting himself and his real-life wife, the Mexican auteur boldly explores—with spellbinding visuals—the dark corners of relationships, dissecting patriarchy along the way. A domestic drama of majestic proportions.

Discontent with mid-century domesticity, a couple flee its demands, throwing their son prematurely into the mess of adult affairs. Wildlife may be his first film as director and screenwriter, yet Paul Dano comes close to the heights of Greek tragedy in this tale of the nuclear family in crisis.